Summer Reading AP Literature
Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition Summer Reading 2015
All incoming AP Literature students are required to read materials over the summer in preparation for the course and subsequent AP exam. One portion of the AP exam, the Free Response essay, demands that students have a wide range of challenging literary works from which they can draw upon when writing that essay. The goal of this summer’s reading, however, is not only to prepare you for the exam but to initiate you into the conversation about ideas through literature by both contemporary and classic authors.
AP Literature is a college-level course; it is not a preparation for college. If you are looking for ways around this reading assignment, you should not enroll in this class. If you do not intend to take the AP exam, you should not enroll in this class. Students who do not complete the summer reading—all of it, as spelled out by these guidelines—will not be eligible to take the course.
Be sure to finish reading all the assigned materials before you start class in August. You will be tested on the following the day class begins:
All materials are available via the classroom website (sites.google.com/site/mendomundo). Hard copies are also available in Room 10.